Inquest
- Original title
- Inquest
- Year
- 1939
- Running time
- 58 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Elizabeth Allan
- Herbert Lomas
- Hay Petrie
- Barbara Everest
- Olive Sloane
- Philip Friend
- Harold Anstruther
- Malcolm Morley
- Jean Shepeard
- Charles Stephenson
- Basil Cunard
- Richard Coke
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- Cinematography
D.P. Cooper (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Mystery. Film noir | Crime. Half-length Film. Courtroom Drama / Lawyers
- Synopsis
- Although short in duration this is distinctly a cut above a "quota quicky" in quality. Hay Petrie, who seems to have later been consigned to many small but distinctive supporting roles, here is centre stage in the court-room scene, gives a very spirited and dominating performance and makes the most of, for once for him, a very good role. Opposite him is a worthy foil both in terms of script and actor in the shape of (and here is a very rare thing) a comic Coroner with only too obvious human failings. The quotations in the opening credits questioning the purpose of a Coroner suggest that someone might have been grinding an axe in this intelligent and entertaining legal/crime.
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